Tag: 10.28.19

Extinction Rebellion’s Street Theatre, And How Climate Change Is Treated In An Actual Theatre

Before it lost public sympathy with a badly misjudged action on the London Underground, the British activist group’s agitprop had had a good deal of success, thanks to its “instinctive understanding of public theatre.” Critic Kate Maltby looks at Extinction Rebellion’s successes and missteps alongside the current Old Vic production of Duncan Macmillan’s Lungs, starring Claire Foy and Matt Smith as a couple of climate-anxious white millennials. – The New York Review of Books

Can Painting Murals On City Streets Change How People Use Cities?

The Asphalt Art Initiative will award 10 small or mid-sized cities with grants of up to $25,000 to create colorful murals on streets, intersections, and crosswalks, or vertical surfaces of transportation infrastructure like utility boxes, traffic barriers, and highway underpasses. “Most of the time these projects are used as a relatively inexpensive and quick way to either make streets safer or to reallocate space away from cars and for people.” – Curbed

Rediscovering The Women Who Built The Early Film Industry

“In the early years of the twentieth century, women worked in virtually every aspect of silent-film-making, as directors, writers, producers, editors, and even camera operators. The industry — new, ad hoc, making up its own rules as it went along — had not yet locked in a strict division of labor by gender. … Now we are in the midst of a new round of rediscoveries — this time of women’s behind-the-camera roles well into the golden age of Hollywood.” – The New Yorker

The Met Museum Attracts A Million People To Its Events Each Year. That’s Changing The Museum

Sandra Jackson-Dumont: “I’m trying to move the idea away from people being visitors to the museum to being users. You to go to a library to use it, right? You’re not a visitor to the library. I’ve been talking about how can we make this place the extension of what people do in their daily lives.” – ShondaLand

This Playwright Is Tackling Issues Her Indian Compatriots Would Rather She Left Alone

“Anupama Chandrasekhar isn’t one to shy away from a tough subject. The Indian playwright has written about acid attacks, sex tapes and her home country’s culture of patriarchal violence. ‘I have been asked so many times, mostly by men, ‘Why don’t you write comedies, or plays that celebrate India?” she says. ‘I tell them: on the day that these things don’t happen any more, I will happily start writing bedroom farces.'” – The Guardian

What’s Becoming Of Condé Nast In A Post-Print World?

In a sort of sequel to last week’s New Republic article on how Mr. Condé Montrose Nast created the high-end glossy magazine industry, writer Reeves Wiedeman visits the (shrinking) Condé Nast offices at One World Trade Center for a longread about how the (shrinking) magazine-publishing group has and hasn’t been adapting to the rise of digital media, especially with Anna Wintour having been made creative director for the entire company. – New York Magazine